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consist of incense burners, vases, bowls, jars, temple lanterns, 

 figures of elephants, monkeys, parrots, quails, etc., also a fine 

 Temple ornament, forming a group of the sacred Lotus, with 

 magpies perched in various positions on the branches. The 

 examples are mostly of the Kien Lung period, 1736-1795 ; a 

 few of the Ming period. 



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The Superintendent of the Art Gallery, Mr. Richard 

 Quick, reports as follows : — 



A second edition of the Catalogue of the Permanent 

 Pictures has been issued, and included in it, is a list of the 

 pictures on permanent loan from the Bristol Fine Arts 

 Academy. 



Permanent Collection. 



The Permanent Collection has, during the past year, 

 been enriched (apart from pictures lent), by the addition of 

 17 works, chief among these, being three pictures bequeathed 

 by the late Alderman Charles Bowles Hare, viz : " Cutting 

 out the French Corvette, ' La Chevrette,' by English Sailors, 

 July, 21st, 1801," by Philip de Loutherbourg, R.A. (Ex- 

 hibited Royal Academy, 1802). " Tivoli," by George A. 

 Fripp, and a fine water-colour, entitled " The Irish Piper," 

 by his brother, Alfred D. Fripp. 



" Ruins at Gornou, Egypt," by Wm. J. Muller, (Ex- 

 hibited Royal Academy, 1840), was bequeathed by the late 

 John Curnock, and has now been placed in the Galleries. 

 Another addition, a water-colour of the old " Daedalus," by 

 A. Wilde Parsons, has been presented by Mr. Heber Mardon. 

 This picture forms an interesting memento of an old warship, 



